Quentin Tarantino

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?

One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.

I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it.

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.

I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'

I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.

Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

I steal from every movie ever made.